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The author questions the “way of telling” news in online or traditional press and on 24 hours news channels. First we are going to explore how the media discourse appropriates the news precisely when they happen and have to be announced: how the verbal language actualises a fact that has just left the virtual sphere and before it could become an “objectified event” (Quéré) that needs to be understood, explained, commented by the media. Therefore, the second part deals with the plurality of historical times (Braudel) and with the role of different memories in the traditional French analysis of discourse regarding how the daily or immediate fact, has to be named, compared to previous events to anticipate on the future from experiences stored in memory. This should lead us to distinguish the journalists temporalities and the “historicity regimes” relating to the present (Hartog).